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PREFACE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X INDEX OF PROPER NAMES INDEX OF TITLES INDEX
ANIMA POETÆ
FROM THE UNPUBLISHED NOTE-BOOKS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
EDITED BY ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MDCCCXCV
All rights reserved Entered at Stationers' Hall Entered at the Library of Congress, Washington Copyright, 1895
When shall I find time and ease to reduce my pocket-books and memorandums to an Index or Memoriæ Memorandorum? If—aye! and alas! if I could see the last sheet of my Assertio Fidei Christianæ, et eterni temporizantis, having previously beheld my elements of Discourse, Logic, Dialectic, and Noetic, or Canon, Criterion, and Organon, with the philosophic Glossary—in one printed volume, and the Exercises in Reasoning as another—if—what then? Why, then I would publish all that remained unused, Travels and all, under the title of Excursions Abroad and at Home, what I have seen and what I have thought with a little of what I have felt, in the words in which I told and talked them to my pocket-books, the confidants who have not betrayed me, the friends whose silence was not detraction, and the inmates before whom I was not ashamed to complain, to yearn, to weep, or even to pray! To which are added marginal notes from many old books and one or two new ones, sifted through the Mogul Sieve of Duty towards my Neighbour—by 'Εστησε.
21 June, 1823.